Sentence examples for live in captivity from inspiring English sources

(There are none in zoos; only lowland gorillas live in captivity).

Guinness World Records recognised Jia Jia as the oldest giant panda to live in captivity.

In Thailand there are about 6,000, half of which live in captivity.

IN 1856, Margaret Garner, a slave from Kentucky, fled with seven members of her family to Ohio, where they were recaptured — and where she made the horrific decision to kill her children rather than see them live in captivity.

In March 2005, Porter J. Goss, who was then the C.I.A. director, described waterboarding as a "professional interrogation technique"; American military pilots and commandos are known to have been subjected to it during highly classified training regimes designed to prepare them to live in captivity.

GAP is an international lobby group which believes no ape should have to live in captivity.

For the rabbi, Alik belongs to a large category he calls captive children -- "millions of Jews living in captivity with the heathens," Jews "deprived of the Torah, the Jewish way of life, education and upbringing".

Possibly the longest-lived Tasmanian devil recorded was Coolah, a male devil which lived in captivity for more than seven years.

The snake has been living in captivity, without a male companion, for nearly eight years.

The result is a book that, although deeply disturbing, is a remarkable examination of lives lived in captivity.

Dr. Zivie said an analysis of its teeth suggested that it had lived in captivity and had died naturally.